Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is one of the big names due to start blogging on a new discussion forum run by Iceland’s Landsbanki bank. Brown is still affectionately-known in Iceland as the man who branded Landsbanki a terrorist organisation and destroyed Iceland’s economy Read the full story

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the President of Iceland, stated in an interview with Wall Street Journal, that Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should apologise to Icelanders for actions he took in October 2008. Read the full story

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will assume the role of co-chair of a United Nations climate change focus group. Stoltenberg takes over the position after the departure of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Read the full story

The long-awaited reply from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to a letter sent in August by his Icelandic counterpart, Johanna Sigurdardottir has been received in Reykjavik. The letter evades Sigurdardottir’s request for a personal meeting. Read the full story

Ian Whitting, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Reykjavik, refused to comment on why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has yet to respond to a letter sent by his Icelandic counterpart two months ago. Read the full story

On October 15th 2009, the Icelandic organisation, InDefence published a press release updating its opinion on the Icesave dispute as viewed from Iceland. Read the full story

The Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ossur Skarphedinsson, today made a formal complaint on comments made by the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, during a session of Parliamentary question time. Minister Skarphedinsson called in the British Charge d’Affaires to Iceland to deliver a protest. The Ambassador of Iceland to the United Kingdom has also delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street. Read the full story

In an answer from the British PM office it’s said that Mr. Brown was referring to the agreement between the Icelandic Government and the IMF in regards of the Icesave accounts. In Gordon’s response it’s said that the British Government celebrated Iceland’s agreement with the IMF and that the Icelandic government said they would be paying British Icesavers back.

The two governments have not reached a final conclusion on how this is to be done. The British Government recognised local responsibility in regards of the Icelandic owned British bank Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander.

Local media RUV.is reports

In an Interview at local TV station Stod 2 (Channel 2) tonight Graham Brady (MP) said that the British Prime Minster mislead the British Parliament when he said that the British Government was in talks with the IMF with regard to the Icelandic financial crisis and that the British depositors could get paid through the IMF loan to Iceland.

Gordon Brown reacted with this answer when Mr. Brady demanded compensation for the Christie Charity at a Parliamentary question time.

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The application of anti-terrorist laws against Iceland at the beginning of the banking crisis last October was unnecessarily harsh; this is the finding of a British parliament committee set up specifically to investigate events in the Icelandic economy and their effect on the United Kingdom. The committee also found that the laws need reviewing and clarifying to decide if it is right that they are used for situations such as the one that rose with the Icelandic financial crisis. The committee feels that the UK government should have alternative ways to react to these kind of situations. Read the full story